Creation and nature of optical centres in diamond for single-photon emission-overview and critical remarks

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Pezzagna, Sébastien ^a   Rogalla, Detlef ^a   Wildanger, Dominik ^b   Meijer, Jan ^a   Zaitsev, Alexander ^a,c  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOUR CENTRES; DEFECT CENTRES; FINE ANALYSIS; IMPLANTATION TECHNIQUE; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; NANOMETRES; NITROGEN VACANCIES; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION; SINGLE-PHOTON EMITTERS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; SUB-DIFFRACTION;

COLOR CENTERS; DEFECTS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

ION IMPLANTATION;

EID: 79953776236     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/3/035024     Document Type: Article

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